VMware vSphere resource management essentials : optimum solutions to help you manage your VMware vSphere resource effectively /
This concise guide follows a practical approach, covering solutions and methods to manage resources for virtualization. If you are a current vSphere administrator who is aspiring to start your virtualization journey with VMware vSphere and wants to learn how to manage your resources, this is the boo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Pub.,
2014.
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Colección: | Professional expertise distilled.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Understanding vSphere System Requirements; ESXi system requirements; vCenter components; Understanding vSphere features; Topology basics; Understanding vSphere data center; Familiarizing yourself with a vSphere cluster; What is a vSphere host?; Remembering configuration maximums; Virtual machine maximums (per VM); ESXi host maximums (per host); Cluster maximums; Determining resource utilization requirements; Monitoring common resource statistics; Sample workload
- Collecting statistics on WindowsCollecting statistics on Linux; Summary; Chapter 2: Assigning Resources to VMs; The basics of overcommitment and virtualization; CPU scheduling and the effect of multiple vCPU VMs; Memory assignment and management; Memory overhead; Transparent page sharing and memory compression; Ballooning; The VSWP swap file; Monitoring memory usage; Storage considerations and their effects on performance; What is IOPS?; RAID; VMware vSphere Storage APIs
- Array Integration (VAAI); Connectivity and throughput; VMFS; VM disk provisioning; Monitoring storage; Networking
- UplinksWhat is a vSwitch?; Monitoring network connectivity with ESXTOP; Summary; Chapter 3: Advanced Resource Management Features; Understanding CPU power management; Reservations, limits, and shares; Resource limits; Resource shares; Resource pools; vApps; vMotion; Enhanced vMotion Capability (EVC); How to enable EVC; DRS; DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules; High Availability; Admission control; App HA; Fault Tolerance; Hot Add; Storage vMotion, Storage DRS, and Datastore clusters; Storage vMotion; Datastore clusters; Storage DRS; vSphere Distributed Switches; New in vSphere 5.5
- VSphere Flash Read CacheVSAN; Summary; Chapter 4: Automation and Monitoring Options; Automation solutions for vSphere; Cloning VMs; VM templates; Update Manager; Host profiles; Auto deploy; PowerCLI basics; vCenter Orchestrator basics; Automating resource management; Creating a new VM; Creating a new VM with PowerCLI; Creating a new VM with vCO; Community automation resources; Available monitoring options; Alarms; Configuring an alarm; vCenter Operations Manager; Summary; Index